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escort, his Lordship in Council authorizes you to employ 
him, as suggested by you, as a second and temporary 
assistant during your mission, and his Excellency the Com¬ 
mander-in-chief will be requested to grant him leave of 
absence from his corps for the period in question. 
S .—Regarding the general demeanour to be observed by 
you in your intercourse with the Court of Ava, adverted 
to in the.sixth paragraph of your letter, I am directed to 
observe, that the Governor-General in Council must neces¬ 
sarily leave a great deal to your approved judgment and 
experience, concluding also, that you will shape your pro¬ 
ceedings in ceremonials and other matters of etiquette with 
advertence generally to the precedents of Lieutenant- 
Colonel Symes and Major Canning, modifying and suiting 
them to existing circumstances as may seem to you politic 
and expedient after due consideration and consulting with 
Mr. Judson and others best acquainted with the character, 
customs, and feelings of the Burmese. His Lordship in 
Council observes, that you state Mr. Judson’s opinions 
on this subject to accord with your own present views 
and sentiments. These opinions, it is presumed, refer to 
what is said by Mr. Judson of the inexpediency of remind¬ 
ing the Burmese of their subjection, by haughtiness of 
conduct, or assumption of superiority on the part of the 
British officers, and not to the question of the permanent 
residence of an Envoy at Ava. On this latter point, the 
Governor-General in Council does not deem it necessary 
to come to any final determination at the present moment, 
but will await the receipt of farther information from you 
as to the advantage or otherwise of such an arrangement, 
when you shall have become more intimately acquainted 
with the feelings and deportment of the Burman King 
towards the British Mission. His Lordship in Council’s 
present notion is, that every useful purpose will be accom- 
